The movie
Don’t Look Up
A dead serious and hilarious end of the world comedy, a “Melancholia” meets “Dr. Strangelove” —with a top ensemble in fine form, led by DiCaprio, Lawrence, and Streep.’
Length: 139 min
Country: United States
Language spoken: English
Language subtitles: Dutch
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Rob Morgan, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry
Director: Adam McKay
Release date: 2021
Description
Responsible for the hilarious and astute ‘The Big Short’ and ‘Vice’—not to mention the cult classic ‘Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy’—writer-director Adam McKay hits another one out of the park with the funniest and most politically pointed Hollywood film of the year. Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio play astronomy student and professor, respectively, who discover that a comet is set to obliterate all life on earth—and then find it impossible to get anyone, including Meryl Streep’s president of the USA, to care… Obviously a trenchant satire about our blasé treatment of the climate emergency, this caustic comedy features a dream cast: alongside Lawrence, DiCaprio, and Streep, fine and very funny work is done by Jonah Hill (as the president’s son and aide), Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande, Mark Rylance, and Melanie Lynskey.
‘McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” is a dead serious and hilarious end of the world comedy, a “Melancholia” meets “Dr. Strangelove” —with a top ensemble in fine form, led by DiCaprio, Lawrence, and Streep.’—Anne Thompson (Editor at Large, IndieWire)
‘McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” is a dead serious and hilarious end of the world comedy, a “Melancholia” meets “Dr. Strangelove” —with a top ensemble in fine form, led by DiCaprio, Lawrence, and Streep.’—Anne Thompson (Editor at Large, IndieWire)
